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(still can't get my head round this)
My stepdaughter & husband, along with granddaughter have just gone off to Florida for 3 weeks. Nothing too odd about that in itself, except It's a 3 week theme park holiday, as in 3 weeks of rides. Dave loves the rides.
As far as I know theyr'e in theme park hotels with upgrades (whatever they are) & Fast track passes for the rides. All inclusive.
20K + 5K spendies.
Is that a lot, in the grand scheme of things? Cos that would get me an awesome amount of holidays that would suit me & Mrs Egf!
Oh yes, that's a lot
Not sure I would be happy if I was made to stay there for £25k
That is insane.
Mind you I think you would have to pay me £25K to spend 3 weeks in Florida at a theme park surrounded by all that fakness and Trump supporters. I genuinely can't think of anything worse.
Thats a third of my mortgage 😀 I don't even live in a shithole!
i wish not going on holiday meant i could pay my mortgage off in three years 😀
I did a James villa thing 2k. I thought that was too much.
That’s madness
If its all inclusive why do they need 5k for spends
All depends on their income.
For Florida that’s a lot. But then I couldn’t think of a worse holiday than you described. We have a holiday home in Florida, I think I’ve over done it and bored by it now.
We spend a lot on holidays, but tend to do a lot. This year it’s Costa Rica, staying in a nice resort but we will also be going exploring the jungle and volcanoes. Amazing wildlife that we see as potentially once in a lifetime.
Kids are only young once, if the money isn’t a problem then I guess it doesn’t matter.
That's vulgar.
The cabin we are currently staying on near the beach in Devon was £800 for the week- can’t imagine either that spend or why you’d spend it on that!
Went to Canada, heliskiing with my dad. (Twice)
It was expensive. It was great.
Kids, work, exchange rates and a less fit dad make it unlikely to happen again.
Think it was about £5k all in for a Baltic cruise last year. Someone once said to me, if you remember the experience after you've forgotten the cost, it was worth the money. It wasn't worth the money. I see a battle with Mrs Tthew in a couple of years time when she want to go again and I don't.
It was alright, I liked the places we went, but we didn't stay long enough to really get to know or appreciate them and the culture/feel of the place. Also I begrudge the fact that the cities we visited got all the inconvenience of a massive influx of tourists daily, (there were 3 other massive ships on the same route) who spend very little in the local economy.
Still, £25k makes it seem like a bloody bargain.
"Kids are only young once"
It's for the son-in-law's benefit, isn't it?
Jaysus.
I’m all for spend what the **** you want on your holiday but that’s mad.
All depends on their income.
I'm not sure it does. With all the natural wonder; all the culture and all the adrenaline experiences (some of which might involve some skill and user input rather than just sitting there like a vegetable with a thumb up your bum) available across the globe why theme parks? Why 3 weeks of theme parks? And why spunk £25K on it? Theme parks are the preserve of the world's imagination free ignorant philistines. It kettles them all in a nice compact space so grateful for small mercies I guess.
About 25 years ago I spent about £2.5K just for me. That was walking up Mt Kenya, Kilimanjaro and a few days lion watching.
That much to just do a few theme parks sounds a lot, but as I said above, does depend on what they earn.
Please allow me some willy waving.This is me right now and this view costs $30000 US a week plus 19% tax accommodation only plus another 10% for the staff. Luckily I’m not paying. My friends are here for 3 weeks.
😳, most I’ve spent is approximately £2600 for 6 months/4000+miles touring in India, £450 ish on flights, £900 ish on buying a Royal Enfield in Delhi motorcycle market which I sold for a decent profit in Anjuna Goa in the week I flew back home, best holiday ever and I even got seriously ill with dysentery for a 5 rupee samosa at Victoria terminus in Mumbai.
£25k for a holiday to Disneyland takes the piss but I guess they have the right to spend their money however they choose.
Seems dear. A few years ago I spend about 6k for 2 weeks there doing the parks. That was 2 of us.
It’s for the son-in-law’s benefit, isn’t it?
Dead right Esme. Daft thing is (?) he's 54, Gemma is 33 & Caitlyn is 14. Gemma & Caitlyn aren't even that arsed about doing the theme thing, maybe a few days, a week maybe but Dave booked it all.
They still have a decent sized mortgage, Gemma's a teacher & Dave has a decent income with some gas supply company but not megabucks. Maybe a good bonus.
What's that 'phile' where people are addicted to rollercoasters & stuff? he might have that.
most I’ve spent is approximately £2600 for 6 months/4000+miles touring in India, £450 ish on flights, £900 ish on buying a Royal Enfield in Delhi motorcycle market which I sold for a decent profit in Anjuna Goa in the week I flew back home, best holiday ever and I even got seriously ill with dysentery for a 5 rupee samosa at Victoria terminus in Mumbai.
See, that's a proper holiday!
£3300 for 2 x adults & 3 x kids to spend one night in Lapland and meet 'Santa'.
Theme parks are the preserve of the world’s imagination free ignorant philistines
**** off themeparks are great.
aslong as its only one day off season midweek and raining.
This is me right now and this view costs $30000 US a week plus 19% tax accommodation only plus another 10% for the staff.
Hedge could do with a trim.
I'm glad you cropped that willy waving photo zippy
That seems like ostentatious consumerism.
We spent £15k on our honeymoon. 4 week circumnavigation of the world in business class doesn't come cheap.
Reckon a fair chunk of that holiday price could have gone on flights if they went business class. That said, pretty sure I couldn't handle 3 weeks of Orlando resorts...
What percentage of annual take home pay do people tend to spend? I was thinking about this the other day and it is about 8% for us. Not sure if this high or low?
If I had a spare £25k I'd buy a Triumph Street Triple, a bit of luggage, and then I'd head off into Europe for a few months.
But, each to their own...
this is me right now
Fergie, is that you?
What percentage of annual take home pay do people tend to spend? I was thinking about this the other day and it is about 8% for us. Not sure if this high or low?
A bit higher than ours - Last year was a big spend year for us comparatively with 3 holidays and one to Scandinavia and two other very 'middle class' holidays (Neilson resort holiday and a National Trust cottage). Still only about about 7% though. Cheating mind as used our van for the Norway trip so a chunk of the cost of that should probably be attributed to that number too. This year it'll be back to 3% which is probably average. Only two of us mind, but limited to school holiday times through my job.
What percentage of annual take home pay do people tend to spend? I was thinking about this the other day and it is about 8% for us. Not sure if this high or low?
ooh, interesting question. I don't tot things up meticulously.
We don't have kids, so around 12 - 15% I reckon. This makes me slightly nervous. Might have to rein it in a bit soon because the car won't last forever and we want to redo the kitchen. Still, you've got to while away the years somehow.
This doesn't include random weekends away, which are probably around 1% each and which we do a couple a year.
Also yes, £25K is a huge amount for a holiday. Several years worth for us!
To me that’s nuts! That’s a round the world trip! But you know what you only live once if that’s what makes them happy and they’ve got the money happy days! Remember we ride thousands of ponds if push bike around the woods!! 😂😂
Family holiday this year we visited a pile of rubble at clachtoll, then visited the wishing tree at lochinver.
Oh and a couple of waterfalls.
Was slightly cheaper than 25k, although the beer at the shop in drumbeg was pricey
We went to Florida earlier in the year - a week in a big villa (private pool, nice quiet gated community). Then 4 days in The Hard Rock Hotel with passes to Universal. 4 of us with flights, car hire accommodation and theme park passes cost us around 7k. 1k of which was theme park entry.
It was nice. Can’t say I’d go back. 3 weeks of theme parks would drive me nuts. 4 days was more than enough.
The most we’ve spent on our hols was around 10k - 2 and a bit months on a round the world ticket (Peru, Mexico, San Fran, Hong Kong, India and Thailand). That i’d definitely do again.
Main holiday is about 3% and there's about the same spent across the year on city breaks and black stocking weekends.
£25K on a single holiday is ****ing obscene, especially for three weeks in hell. A long round the world trip would be a better use of that sort of money.
Well 25K plus 5K spending is insane for a Florida theme park. As someone else said - you couldn't pay me £25K o go to Florida theme parks for 3 weeks. Even for MrsG, holiday booker extraordinary (I write this from the balcony of our Airbnb condo overlooking Malibu beach) we couldn't spend anything like that on a single holiday. Still best holiday of the year will probably be for me the week with WhiteRoom MTB earlier this summer with my son.
3 week holiday in florida.
25k.
Definitely no money laundering or coke smuggling out of Colombia /Caribbean going on there lol!
Well 25K plus 5K spending is insane for a Florida theme park.
£20k plus £5k spends, £25k total.
So about £400 per person, per night OP?
I’ve spent a lot more than that, though for less time, with fewer people.
They are spending their money on things they like doing. If all the bills are covered, what should they spend it on instead?
Coke?
Planning on a trip to Florida in October with son 2. It will be a fraction of that cost and the rides will consist of him flying me around teh sky. My budget is 20% of your total to include the rides! (I do get a free flight though as I have a work expense to go to as well :-))
We did 12 days on a yacht in the BVI last October - that was an exception year as I'd been very busy and the girls had all done A levels and GCSEs
Total cost, inc spends, was £12k but that was for 5 people, so actually £200pp/day.
The experience, fun & memories were worth it but we're not doing much this year.
As a family of five we did 2.5 weeks in Florida in May last year for £11k all in - flights, accom, passes, car hire, airport parking, food, spends. Six days at Disney in a Disney hotel, six days on the Gulf coast in a villa w/ pool (AMI), a couple of days at Orlando/Universal (ouch) and a day/night at Kennedy. Passes were for two weeks so wouldn't have cost more to spend more time in the parks but dear god...
To counter I spend a shit load of money on a mountain bike trip a couple of weeks back but then it was Doug's BasqueMTB Ultimate trip :-).
W O R T H E V E R Y P E N N Y
My parents spent £15k on a conservatory. It's about as useful.
Just checking, son in law Dave hasn’t been accidentally circumcised as he?
Disney tax tho, innit? BIL, SIL and sprog did a disney cruise for 9k for a week (may have been 10 days). Out of school holidays too!
We did Euro Disney in April for 2.4k for 4 nights Half Board; we had looked at going in the February half term when the price was 4.4k for the same thing! I said no to that.
Brexit is going to mean prices go up and up for us. I'm thinking of booking next year's euro break soon 🙁
Their money, their choice. I would spend £25k on something else.
Our holiday money get spent on kids trips - Scouts, Guides, sports, music. This years "family" holiday is a long weekend in Liverpool, but eldest will have been away from home for something like 40 nights, youngest is on for about 15.
`3k ...38 years ago visiting friends in South Africa ( 2k on flights alone ..really expensive back then ) ..3weeks travelling ..1 week in the Kruger National Park ( saw just about every animal you could think of except a Leopard )..1 week spent travelling to the other end of the country to Cape Town ( did the Cable Car ) ..and one week back up the Garden Route ..never did get to Durban ..before having to cut things short for the flight from Joburg to get back home ..landed at Heathrow with a couple of quid left..
just as well we had pre paid the fare on the National Express to get back to Newcastle ..
Some scary moments while there ..but an amazing , beautiful country ..and still the most I've spent on a holiday with the then missus ..can't imagine what it would cost now ..
My mum spent roughly that on a cruise a couple of years ago.
I think I’d rather be dangling off a rollercoaster.
Depends a bit on their income really, £25k would be a hell of a lot for me to spend on a holiday but might be loose change to someone else. A mate at work spent £12k a few years back on a family (of 4) holiday to Florida, sounded like they all had a great time (probably took him a couple of years to save up for it to). I guess for them £12k was money well spent.
Shiiiiit. For that sort of money I could spend six months living over there at a mate's rental house with all the skydiving I could ever wish for. Spending three weeks at a Disney park would drive me utterly mad.
I think the most I ever spent on a holiday was two weeks in Canada skiing. Not only did it cost a lot to get and stay there, but it made me realise I needed a divorce and that cost over 200k.
I’m sorry, but the guy sounds like a massive bell end.
Because he’s spending money on something you’re not interested in? You sound like a massive bell end.
I can’t quite get my head around that, and also don’t get the £5k spending if it’s all inclusive and they’re just doing the parks, but each to their own.
I’m not that fussed by holidays frankly, and resent spending loads of money on them! We did Costa Rica for our honeymoon, which ended up about £8k I think, definitely the most I’ve spent! Was absolutely stunning though.
I think it was about £4000, 14 days Morzine, Chamonix, Maranello, Bologna, Iseo, Troyes. Was for MRs Weeksys 40th birthday as well as a holiday.
Because he’s spending money on something you’re not interested in? You sound like a massive bell end.
Bother to read all the OP's posts. He is the only one of the family (him, wife, child) with any real interest in theme parks and he booked it alone. I.e. he spent circa £45K of income (assuming he is a high rate tax payer, surely you'd have to be) and is taking up three weeks of holiday time on a holiday only he really wanted. That puts him into bellendery territory for me too.
Disney tax tho, innit?
Well not really. When you compare Disney to any UK attraction like Alton Towers and how much better and bigger they do it in the States then you can see where the cost is. Typical thread...waffling on about cost with no reference to value. I wouldn't say the Florida theme park is everyone's cup of tea but at least the yanks do things properly, with no expense spared, so you can see why its so expensive. We're doing it next year for two weeks and the costs are coming in between £10k and £14k which seems about typical range for that kind of holiday. Not really my cup of tea personally, but the rest of the family want to do it and the kids are at the age where it is now or never. And it's not just about the Disney part of it, its all the other stuff too so comparing to Eurodisney isn't a fair comparison...comparing Florida Disney to Eurodisney isn't even in the same ball park. The French can't even do McDonalds properly so they've got no chance with Disneyland.
I'm consoling myself in the fact the last 5 years of holidays have come in for circa £2k doing French campsites and holidays before that in the UK and direct booking villa's and apartments in Europe were not much more expensive. We've had a great time doing those too. I can't get my head around other people who spend £6k per year on the standard fortnight to the usual Med locations in an all inclusive hotel. That's my personal idea of hell, but plenty of people love it and do it every year. Each to their own. It's a holiday at the end of the day and the most important thing is you do it as a family and its stress and hassle free.
We were lucky in that when our girls were little my dad lived in Southern California. So every other summer we’d get to go to Disneyland or Sea World or, when they were a bit bigger, Magic Mountain. That’s one day every other year, which was just about right. TWO WEEKS OF IT? No ta, but as someone has said . . .
But, each to their own…
Best holiday I ever had was 3 1/2 weeks in Nepal hiking in the Himalayas and the whole cost including flights came to £1500! That was only back in 2016 too. So that much in the OP for a holiday is insane to me, especially to a hellhole like disneyworld. If I ever had that much money I'd put it on a house deposit.
eh wrong thread :p
Not really my cup of tea personally, but the rest of the family want to do it and the kids are at the age where it is now or never. And it’s not just about the Disney part of it, its all the other stuff too so comparing to Eurodisney isn’t a fair comparison
I'm biased because it's not my cup of tea too however:-
1. You are (one of)the adult(s) in the family. It's your job to educate that there is more to life than manmade instant gratification fakery. A teenage boy's perfect idea of two weeks off without prompting would be to be locked in his room with a laptop full of porn and Katy Perry posters and toss himself off until it's covered in blisters. Then CoD and Dominos pizzas. Rinse and repeat. They can however be cajoled into appreciating there is more to life; more to see and do. Theme parks are just a laptop of porn when compared to the loving relationship and gigi gigi time the real world can provide. As an enlightened adult you need to be showing them the way not acquiescing to their uneducated desires.
2. Florida vs France. Christ, where to begin. I admit I've not done US theme parks but I did spend 9 days in Florida for a big race I was in. Yes the weather is nice, and yes the beaches are white and yes manatees are nice to watch. But......wall to wall shopping malls, traffic everywhere - no one walks ever, obese people like you have never seen, achingly try hard fake service in the restaurants, great food as long as your idea of great is obscene quantities, imported 'culture' done badly. It's like they found a beautiful lump of land with a good climate and ****ed it up in every conceivable way. When comparing to time spent in France and the opportunity to immerse in a genuine culture, speak a foreign language, visit cultural landmarks of genuine age and of global significance it comes up short in every category. Florida made me sick with its consumerism and gluttony. It is a physical manifestation of everything that is wrong with the human attitude to the planet we live on. Could not wait to leave when the race was done.
What a thread.
Back when we were 22 we spent our life savings (about 8k) on flights to NZ bought a couple of bikes in Christchurch and headed south.
Then headed north
Spent 4 months doing that .
Then went to Australia for 2 months and did similar + lots of swimming and lots of walking around/sitting around in parks.
I'm trying to put that expense into perspective and this is the best I can think of...
Better half and I have gone to Longleat CenterParcs on average once a year since 2007 (midweek, typically between March and June and not in school holidays, usually in a villa) and I would estimate we have spent under £8000 in total including travel, food and boarding for our guinea pigs.
Could be worse, he could be a proper coaster addict and dragging them around various doghole theme parks in Ohio and New Jersey so he can tick off the top ten rides in the US.
Florida is my personal idea of pure hell. The thought of three weeks there is making me sweat - but presumably there are other activities which might make your SD and GD less likely to punch a Disney Princess in the chops?
I think he most I've spent is probably about £4k for two of us to go the Canada a couple of years ago. And even that couldve been more as the GF is from Vancouver and we borrowed her mums car for a week or so.
Not my idea of a holiday, but each to their own
Just spent £200 on a few days in Yorkshire. First thing my 3 year old said to me this morning? "I don't like Yorkshire."
First thing my 3 year old said to me this morning? “I don’t like Yorkshire.”
Seems reasonable. Was it pissing down where you were as well?
I’m all for spend what the **** you want on your holiday but that seems quite a lot..
FIFM
You are (one of)the adult(s) in the family. It’s your job to educate that there is more to life than manmade instant gratification fakery.
Good Luck with that.
Because he’s spending money on something you’re not interested in? You sound like a massive bell end.
Is your real name Richard Cranium? Read the post like Convert said.
Gemma loves camping & goes with a mate & the teenage girls. In spring this year she wanted a bigger tent (Dave doesn't do tents, as you can imagine, & never has) He kicked off when she said she'd seen a nice big 2nd hand tent for £200 ish because they/he had this holiday to pay for. She bought it anyway.
Dave seems nice.
Wowzers, that's more than I've spend on Holidays in my entire life.
I hate theme parks, so I doesn't appeal, but dropping £25k on 3 weeks in a plastic shopping centre seems mad to me. There's so many amazing things to experience in this world I can't imagine giving so much to ride Space Mountain 5 times in a day or whatever. Utter madness.
Is that a lot, in the grand scheme of things? Cos that would get me an awesome amount of holidays that would suit me & Mrs Egf!
I wonder if there is a caravan park that costs 25k for a couple of weeks Jim......... ;o)
I think this thread is more about the fact you don't like Dave 😂
First, who cares? Its his money he can do what he wants with it.
Second, wtf is this? Its starts off sounding like a 70's prawno intro then wanders into something even more irrelevant with a (perhaps two) hints at willy waving...
Gemma loves camping & goes with a mate & the teenage girls. In spring this year she wanted a bigger tent (Dave doesn’t do tents, as you can imagine, & never has) He kicked off when she said she’d seen a nice big 2nd hand tent for £200 ish because they/he had this holiday to pay for. She bought it anyway.
I think this thread is more about the fact you don’t like Dave 😂
I'm getting that vibe, yep!
Convert:
So much goodness in one post...
I’m not sure it does. With all the natural wonder; all the culture and all the adrenaline experiences (some of which might involve some skill and user input rather than just sitting there like a vegetable with a thumb up your bum)
I cal it potato sack tourism.activities where the outcome is the same regardless of whether the rider is a sentient human being or a sack of spuds. Eg bungee jumping, white water rafting in an oar rig, roller coasters etc
available across the globe why theme parks? Why 3 weeks of theme parks? And why spunk £25K on it? Theme parks are the preserve of the world’s imagination free ignorant philistines. It kettles them all in a nice compact space so grateful for small mercies I guess.
True dat
We spent around three grand all in for a week for four to Finale last year and that seemed well excessive.
Went to Cyprus this June for 4k and had enough after 3 days.
I like rides so would not mind doing Florida but I can't justify it.
Would rather go Asia.
3 of us went to Florida 4 years ago. 7k for 2 weeks, Disney, Kennedy and fort Lauderdale. That's spending money included. Took 5 years to save up for.
Family summer hols cost approx 4k. I save for 3 years each time and an 3 years in advance, so have a hol budget each year. Last 2 years, Inc now have been eurocamp. Approx £1.5k for hol, rest is spending money, fuel etc.